Arma: Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus with Horizontal Scalability
Arma: Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus with Horizontal Scalability
Arma is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus system designed to achieve horizontal scalability across all hardware resources: network bandwidth, CPU, and disk I/O. As opposed to preceding BFT protocols, Arma separates the dissemination and validation of client transactions from the consensus process, restricting the latter to totally ordering only …